{"id":1393,"date":"2014-11-10T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T00:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2014-11-10T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T00:52:11","slug":"study-says-home-cooking-equals-better-health-5-ways-to-cut-kitchen-time-without-sacrificing-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"Study Says Home Cooking Equals Better Health: 5 Ways to Cut Kitchen Time Without Sacrificing Nutrition |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.ca\/study-says-home-cooking-equals-better-health-5-ways-to-cut-kitchen-time-without-sacrificing-nutrition-11102014\">Study Says Home Cooking Equals Better Health: 5 Ways to Cut Kitchen Time Without Sacrificing Nutrition |<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: #000000;\">Those of us who are proponents of whole foods and scratch cooking have known it all along, but\u00a0<a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: #c40707; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ajpmonline.org\/article\/S0749-3797(14)00400-0\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">a study published in the\u00a0<\/a><em style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; color: #070809; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: #c40707; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ajpmonline.org\/article\/S0749-3797(14)00400-0\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">American Journal of Preventive Medicine<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>confirms it. \u00a0Time spent in the kitchen equals\u00a0a better diet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">1319 participants in the Seattle Obesity Study answered questions about the amount of time they spend preparing food for their families each day, including prepping, cooking, and cleaning up.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: none; display: block; padding: 0px 0px 10px 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\n<li style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">16% spent less than an hour a day<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">43% spent between 1-2 hours per day<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">41% spent more than 2 hours per day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Those who worked outside the home were less likely to spend time on food preparation. They relied on restaurant meals and convenience foods. \u00a0Those who spent more time preparing food were also more likely to consume a greater proportion of fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Many\u00a0of us lead very busy lives, what with activities for the kids, work, and other obligations. This doesn\u2019t mean that you have to say goodbye to healthy eating. There are lots of ways to cut the time spent in the kitchen while still enjoying optimum nutrition, scratch meals, and yummy produce. \u00a0When you are not in control of your food, you\u2019re much more likely to consume additives, toxic chemicals, and GMOs. Even though I work\u00a0from home, it\u2019s rare for me to spend hours per day in the kitchen. \u00a0Here are 5<a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: #c40707; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.ca\/study-says-home-cooking-equals-better-health-5-ways-to-cut-kitchen-time-without-sacrificing-nutrition-11102014\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0of my favorite kitchen short cuts<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0allow me to step away from the stove while still providing a hearty dinner for the family.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: #000000;\">&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.ca\/study-says-home-cooking-equals-better-health-5-ways-to-cut-kitchen-time-without-sacrificing-nutrition-11102014#sthash.n4Ixe9y0.dpuf<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study Says Home Cooking Equals Better Health: 5 Ways to Cut Kitchen Time Without Sacrificing Nutrition |. Those of us who are proponents of whole foods and scratch cooking have known it all along, but\u00a0a study published in the\u00a0American Journal of Preventive Medicine\u00a0confirms it. \u00a0Time spent in the kitchen equals\u00a0a better diet. 1319 participants in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1021,395,767],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-eating","tag-health","tag-survival-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}